Observations on the Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli near Naples : with an attempt to explain the causes of the frequent elevation and depression of large portions of the earth's surface in remote periods, and to prove that those causes continue in action at the present day. With a supplement. Conjectures on the physical condition of the surface of the moon. /
Babbage, Charles,1791-1871.
[London] : Privately printed,
1847.
Printer's statement on verso t.p.: "Printed by Richard and John E. Taylor, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street.".
Final 4 pages contains "Works by the same Author."
"Read at the Geological Society of London, March 12, 1834. This paper, by the request of the author, was returned to him soon after it was read ... An abstract ... was printed in the Proceedings of the Geol. Society for March 1834, vol. ii. p.72." - p. [3].
Temple of Serapis (Pozzuoli, Italy)
Temples
Sea level
England London.